https://jamisonedgar.com Jamison Edgar Wed, 11 Jun 2025 21:33:29 +0000 https://jamisonedgar.com en https://jamisonedgar.com/Home Wed, 01 Feb 2023 07:50:52 +0000 Jamison Edgar https://jamisonedgar.com/Home <img width="3375" height="2625" width_o="3375" height_o="2625" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fe756ea0afa3ddeb329d5cc45a681e13e4e0114300ec4d97868a8ca6acdab1de/Jamison-Image-1-2.jpg" data-mid="166860975" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fe756ea0afa3ddeb329d5cc45a681e13e4e0114300ec4d97868a8ca6acdab1de/Jamison-Image-1-2.jpg" />Reenactment For Rain(Pansy Prayer), 2007/2019Performance Documentation: Atlanta, GA I want to sink beneath the archive. Go below the sheetrock of its degrading palace and touch a cluster of histories that no document can effectively contain. It’s an impulse like kink-sex without penetration. Like a lamp and I’m a bug into electric shock. It’s a mess. It’s camp. I will do anything to squeeze into the drains where residue collects. <img width="1206" height="1500" width_o="1206" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aa7b01addfd42eaa108e602ec37097868fad807e38eb10b3b957abad30c57cee/IMG_8178.jpg" data-mid="234482525" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aa7b01addfd42eaa108e602ec37097868fad807e38eb10b3b957abad30c57cee/IMG_8178.jpg" /> <img width="490" height="490" width_o="490" height_o="490" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9e892ca5dfbd9da95350eb62da5408755b6012e33d5dd67cdb9a79c786836e6a/25-pack-act-up-ny-silence-death-watermelon-button-to-benefit-palestine-2.png" data-mid="234482647" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/490/i/9e892ca5dfbd9da95350eb62da5408755b6012e33d5dd67cdb9a79c786836e6a/25-pack-act-up-ny-silence-death-watermelon-button-to-benefit-palestine-2.png" /> <img width="379" height="490" width_o="379" height_o="490" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e6fa690abb835869e95dcd0bb41d603347575957d225c86da1e6b0e5470cda77/download.png" data-mid="234482765" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/379/i/e6fa690abb835869e95dcd0bb41d603347575957d225c86da1e6b0e5470cda77/download.png" /> https://jamisonedgar.com/FXLK-PLAY Wed, 11 Jun 2025 17:11:36 +0000 Jamison Edgar https://jamisonedgar.com/FXLK-PLAY FXLK PLAY MYTHMAKING, DEVOTION, AND MISCHIEF AT TOM OF FINLAND FOUNDATION SEPTEMBER 13 - OCTOBER 13, 2025 PLUMER PARK, WEST HOLLYWOOD Featuring the Artists in Residence at the Tom of Finland Foundation <img width="906" height="1400" width_o="906" height_o="1400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/27dd93053a023dc4aecbbeb41d270eea57ad025f5be162b4ea3232488dda9997/_FXLKPoster_11x17_FNL.jpg" data-mid="236751142" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/906/i/27dd93053a023dc4aecbbeb41d270eea57ad025f5be162b4ea3232488dda9997/_FXLKPoster_11x17_FNL.jpg" /> FXLK PLAY celebrates fifteen years of artists-in-residence at the Tom of Finland Foundation and frames TOM House as a living pantheon of queer mythmaking. For over forty years, artists have passed through TOM House not just drawing from Tom’s legacy, but reshaping it—bending it, stretching it, slipping into it. The exhibition proposes Tom of Finland as a modern folk hero, with his move to Los Angeles marking a shift from underground icon to something larger: a mythic figure whose image is continually rewritten through the desires, anxieties, and fantasies of queer life today. At TOM House, the Artists-in-Residence are at the center of this work. They don’t simply reflect Tom’s life, they continually remake it. In doing so, they become the orators of his evolving legacy, carrying it forward into the future. The title FXLK PLAY nods to this slippery legacy and to the role the Artists-in-Residence have played in shaping the Foundation over the past fifteen years. It’s folk play, fuck play, fix play—a reference to an evolving constellation of pleasure, performance, and repair.︎:Pawel Zukowski, Untitled (Leatherman), Acrylic spray-paint on cardboard, 45 x 61 cm, 2023 https://jamisonedgar.com/Not-a-Corn-Field Wed, 11 Jun 2025 17:49:09 +0000 Jamison Edgar https://jamisonedgar.com/Not-a-Corn-Field NOT NOT A CORN FIELD METABOLIC STUDIO AT TWENTY YEARS&nbsp; APRIL - DECEMBER, 2025 DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES <img width="1280" height="720" width_o="1280" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/683928f2de00066d19410e3108cc75fd9efbd0ffa1a82555279337444a23211b/IMG_6668.JPG" data-mid="234471929" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/683928f2de00066d19410e3108cc75fd9efbd0ffa1a82555279337444a23211b/IMG_6668.JPG" /> NOT NOT A CORNFIELD celebrates the twentieth anniversary of Metabolic Studio’s landmark project, Not A Cornfield, which in 2005 transformed an abandoned rail yard in Downtown Los Angeles into a thirty-two-acre cornfield for six agricultural cycles—launching a decade of civic engagement, land remediation, and artistic intervention along the LA River. This new chapter activates the Studio’s archive through a season of public programming held in an outdoor amphitheater formed by a living Milpa—corn, beans, and squash—planted in a comet-shaped formation. Rooted in ancestral agricultural knowledge, speculative design, and queer ecology, the space invites reflection on nourishment, land-based futurity, and collective repair. Monthly gatherings are co-produced with “sister” organizations and bring together artists, land stewards, and community organizers for performances, workshops, and shared dialogue on radical forms of care.︎:Metabolic Studio, 2025 https://jamisonedgar.com/Queering-Digial Wed, 11 Jun 2025 21:33:29 +0000 Jamison Edgar https://jamisonedgar.com/Queering-Digial QUEERING DIGITAL CURATED BY SEVE GALINDO AND JAMISON EDGAR&nbsp; MARCH 14 - APRIL 5, 2025 PACIFIC DESIGN CENTER, WEST HOLLYWOODQueer and trans artists use digital tools to cruise, archive, corrupt, and reimagine the systems that were never meant for us. Queering Digital isn’t about visibility—it’s about rewriting the code, slipping the trap, and building something messier, hotter, and more alive. <img width="3600" height="2400" width_o="3600" height_o="2400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a5735b6845061a172e946a5bdd448f28d3500a05b6afe212531738254ad87350/Spit_ACruz012.jpg" data-mid="234481514" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a5735b6845061a172e946a5bdd448f28d3500a05b6afe212531738254ad87350/Spit_ACruz012.jpg" /> <img width="3600" height="2400" width_o="3600" height_o="2400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4c630c72d778d0bd32b05dc44868ed70e3ca2e5cdcdef704e9a3232a3c13d296/DSC06358_QD_ACruz.jpg" data-mid="234481518" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4c630c72d778d0bd32b05dc44868ed70e3ca2e5cdcdef704e9a3232a3c13d296/DSC06358_QD_ACruz.jpg" /> <img width="3600" height="2400" width_o="3600" height_o="2400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2c01f073e1f67b90fff763db7033054c92cde48d0f44dc2830fc84634fa6f877/DSC06375_QD_ACruz.jpg" data-mid="234481699" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2c01f073e1f67b90fff763db7033054c92cde48d0f44dc2830fc84634fa6f877/DSC06375_QD_ACruz.jpg" /> <img width="2400" height="3600" width_o="2400" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9e9d9b749d14ae171f46617b6a82795eb592e6420b874bb52f9623d4799ae950/DSC06410_QD_ACruz.jpg" data-mid="234481522" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9e9d9b749d14ae171f46617b6a82795eb592e6420b874bb52f9623d4799ae950/DSC06410_QD_ACruz.jpg" /> <img width="3600" height="2400" width_o="3600" height_o="2400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/630a6c83a6f43a345f1738b6681a66e96f3b948a088b7ed2cfb71b5923ab203b/DSC06395_QD_ACruz.jpg" data-mid="234481519" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/630a6c83a6f43a345f1738b6681a66e96f3b948a088b7ed2cfb71b5923ab203b/DSC06395_QD_ACruz.jpg" /> <img width="3600" height="2400" width_o="3600" height_o="2400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bfc0381d61eeb4a2ba39b13200661831248550f57c708f08bed3a850d3593031/DSC06459_QD_ACruz.jpg" data-mid="234481520" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bfc0381d61eeb4a2ba39b13200661831248550f57c708f08bed3a850d3593031/DSC06459_QD_ACruz.jpg" /> Queering Digital confronts the myth of neutrality in technology. The exhibition brings together thirteen queer and trans artists working in Los Angeles who collaborate with digital tools to disrupt homophobic paradigms and amplify the full spectrum of queer subjectivity. Through code, animation, performance, glitch, and image, these artists reimagine what queer resistance looks like in—and beyond—online space. At a time of escalating anti-trans legislation, surveillance, and violence across the U.S. and beyond, Queering Digital centers trans and nonbinary artists not as symbolic figures, but as vital theorists and practitioners of digital life. Their work challenges dominant systems of classification and control while offering new ways of sensing, naming, and surviving. The exhibition insists that queer and trans engagement with technology is not marginal—it is foundational. At its core, Queering Digital is a study in refusal. It resists the idea that visibility alone is progress. It rejects the premise that our online worlds are separate from our embodied lives. And it questions the systems of optimization and surveillance that shape how queerness is seen, sorted, and sold. Rather than replicate dominant tech aesthetics, these artists queer the digital from the inside out—repurposing its textures, tools, and timelines to build something more unruly, more intimate, and more expansive. Queer and trans people have always been technologists of necessity. From secret printing presses to cruising phone lines, from zines to encrypted browsers, our tools have never been neutral. They’ve been portals—ways to find each other, to archive ourselves, to stay alive. Queering Digital honors that lineage while asking what comes next: What new rituals, new languages, and new networks are being shaped through the daily acts of queer and trans world-building online? These works invite viewers to trace digital influences as they migrate across bodies, borders, and platforms. They challenge us to see technology not as something imposed from above, but as something shaped from below—through friction, fandom, failure, and fierce imagination. Exhibiting Artists:&nbsp; Amina Cruz, Nat Decker, Edgar Fabián Frías, Duane Paul, Andres Payan, Ibuki Kuramochi, Marsian DeLellis, Thanos Valentine, Sammie Veeler, Devin Wilson, Kira Xonorika, Ruby Zarsky, Vita Kari, Jenna Caravello, and Phil Tarley. ︎: Amina Cruz https://jamisonedgar.com/Erotic-Codex Thu, 22 Jun 2023 23:45:40 +0000 Jamison Edgar https://jamisonedgar.com/Erotic-Codex EROTIC CODEXCURATED BY JAMISON EDGAR AND ALICE SCOPE APRIL 6 - JUNE 8, 2024 HONOR FRASER GALLERYA red-lit compendium of queer futures, Erotic Codex pulses with the charge of unruly desire. It retools the erotic as a glitch—disruptive, deviant, and generative—tracing how pleasure and tech spill across bodies and networks to imagine new anatomies of freedom. <img width="1600" height="1234" width_o="1600" height_o="1234" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/302f287ae8542f81445ad2a15d83d0ec6b49cafcace93887edef14df111008bf/HonorFraser-2024-04-10_016.jpg" data-mid="216107779" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/302f287ae8542f81445ad2a15d83d0ec6b49cafcace93887edef14df111008bf/HonorFraser-2024-04-10_016.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="900" width_o="1200" height_o="900" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/21ebdc75e6c12684253e76314ad736fac8c8440e16914a82265d7098808501c1/HonorFraser-2024-04-10_018-1200x900.jpg" data-mid="234225315" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/21ebdc75e6c12684253e76314ad736fac8c8440e16914a82265d7098808501c1/HonorFraser-2024-04-10_018-1200x900.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="1600" width_o="1200" 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height_o="900" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0a6b4d7e9ac802a23081b7a0ded10e3008d4d920c646cc0732c7f42424443de5/HonorFraser-2024-04-10_012-1200x900.jpg" data-mid="234225279" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0a6b4d7e9ac802a23081b7a0ded10e3008d4d920c646cc0732c7f42424443de5/HonorFraser-2024-04-10_012-1200x900.jpg" /> Honor Fraser is pleased to present Erotic Codex, a group exhibition that surveys the liberatory affordances of sex and the erotic devices artists use to harness power in an evolving digital landscape. Featuring fifteen artists who embrace the body as a site of rupture, rapture, and reconciliation, the exhibition asks how emerging technologies reconfigure cultural norms around sex—just as they shape the political impact of sexuality at home and in public. In turn, Erotic Codex illuminates the entangled ways we understand intimacy, artificiality, and our own bodies through the prolonged relationships we share with the technological objects at hand. Co-curators Jamison Edgar and Alice Scope arouse influential essays by Audre Lorde, Legacy Russell, and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha to examine the fantasies our erratic media ecosystems engender. The exhibition is indebted to these three trailblazing scholars and the theories of power, glitch, and care that they advance. In turn, Erotic Codex champions the nuanced ways queer, femme, and disabled people claim agency, autonomy, and pleasure on their own terms. “The device”—seen as both a technological companion and a rhetorical instrument—is taken up to observe the divergent modalities of sex across fleshy, messy networks on- and offline. In her 1978 essay “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power,” Lorde outlines the ways men weaponize and distort erotic desire against those who do not fit neatly into the categories of traditional masculinity. She argues that, as a result, the erotic has long been underestimated as a source of empowerment. In the years since its publication, however, “Uses of the Erotic” has become a cornerstone of feminist literature, and Lorde’s call to embrace the power of self-realized desire has catalyzed rigorous debates on the utility and ethics of bodily autonomy, pornography, sex work, and gendered labor. Erotic Codex continues in this tradition—asking visitors to contemplate the devices that generate erotic power in an era of accelerating technological proliferation.&nbsp; &nbsp; Drawing upon nearly three decades of research in the fields of art, technology, and performance, Scope and Edgar cruise the archives of hybrid desire, transforming Honor Fraser into a multisensorial compendium that is at once seductive, deviant, and full of pleasure. Visitors to the gallery will find the space veiled in the hued tones of a red-light district, peppered with sculptures and media installations that divide the gallery into four erotic zones. In the gallery’s largest exhibition hall, a grouping of seven artworks by BORA, Ayanna Dozier, Lolita Eno, Xia Han, Huntrezz Janos, Maggie Oates, Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou, and Miyö Van Stenis dance across a company of suspended video monitors. These pole-dancing avatars greet, tease, and flirt with visitors as they navigate an erotic gym caught between intimacy and exhibitionism. Past the gym, Lucas LaRochelle mounts a large-scale installation of their geolocated web browser Queering the Map, along with QT.Bot, an artificial intelligence model trained on the textual and visual data of the community mapping platform. In the gallery’s screening room, soft cushions adorn the floor in front of Mariana Portela Echeverri’s filmed performance La Parte de Mí Más Lejos de Mí Es la Punta de Mi Lengua (The Part of Me Furthest From Me Is the Tip of My Tongue). During the durational video, Portela Echeverri adorns erotic prostheses to propose new methods for sensing the body at its furthest limits. Finally, visitors are guided into a sensual library where the sticky materiality evoked in the exhibition’s title becomes tangible and interactive. Panteha Abareshi, Lena Chen, Nat Decker, Sarah Friend, Matthew McGaughey, Sybil Montet, and Maggie Oates each forward their own entry into the mounting codex. The seductively spot-lit room of sculptures, videos, and games renders in real time the erotic power of emerging technologies while antagonizing the sexist and dehumanizing tactics that adjacent media fantasies help to perpetuate. Exhibiting Artists:&nbsp;Panteha Abareshi, Bora, Lena Chen &amp; Maggie Oates, Nat Decker, Ayanna Dozier, Mariana Portela Echeverri, Lolita Eno, Sarah Friend, Xia Han, Huntrezz Janos, Lucas LaRochelle, Matthew McGaughey, Sybil Montet, Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou, Miyö Van Stenis Exhibition design in collaboration with Dima Miheev. <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8520ff4063c4e737570a03c47f7327cf1124132ae0a22edf943b2e654744f9ac/The-Real-Violetta-_-Still9-1---Antigoni-Tsagkaropoulou.jpg" data-mid="207062966" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8520ff4063c4e737570a03c47f7327cf1124132ae0a22edf943b2e654744f9ac/The-Real-Violetta-_-Still9-1---Antigoni-Tsagkaropoulou.jpg" /> Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou, The Real Violetta 2023, Video, HD, Sound, Color https://jamisonedgar.com/Concrete-is-Fluid Wed, 11 Jun 2025 18:04:02 +0000 Jamison Edgar https://jamisonedgar.com/Concrete-is-Fluid LAUREN BON CONCRETE IS FLUID&nbsp; SEPTEMBER 13 - DECEMBER 15, 2025 HONOR FRASER GALLERYGuided by the question What if?, Concrete is Fluid reimagines the hardened landscapes of Los Angeles as tender, permeable grounds for ecological repair and collective imagination—a hymn to transformation rooted in the poetics of earth, water, and time. <img width="1600" height="1159" width_o="1600" height_o="1159" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1f8ecc7a4e3843242252e7c0ac385bdf68f5a43d3c1cf2468378680de071decc/DSF1097-1.jpg" data-mid="234472655" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1f8ecc7a4e3843242252e7c0ac385bdf68f5a43d3c1cf2468378680de071decc/DSF1097-1.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="900" width_o="1200" height_o="900" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eeef6785536d4cd78e3af0fbdfaec40c05b99e97d6af09ebb6a6d154bc638fbf/LBConcreteisFluid1087-1200x900.jpg" data-mid="234472662" border="0" 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src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/157b0734695a644f8a7d92b13fa47f19820a05b494d95023ed9766f99008572f/LBConcreteisFluid1303-1200x900.jpg" /> Honor Fraser proudly presents Concrete is Fluid, a solo exhibition by the eco-hacktivist Lauren Bon. The exhibition features room-scale installations of ancient soils and subterranean seedbanks reconfigured into magical assemblages for ecological thinking. Bon’s post-industrial earthworks, photographs, and sculptures index two decades of collaborative interventions and champion the Earth’s immutable cycles of upheaval, abundance, and reparation. Please join us for the opening reception on Saturday, September 14 from 2–5 PM. Concrete is Fluid is a featured exhibition of PST ART: Art &amp; Science Collide. Evoking the paramount medium of industrial Los Angeles, Concrete is Fluid chronicles Bon’s creative techniques to shape, disrupt, and ultimately restore the landscape that she inhabits. Concrete serves as a conceptual anchor throughout the exhibition. While seemingly fixed and sedimentary, concrete never fully dries. Bon draws out this paradox to underscore the flexibility we must embody to meet the mounting ecological challenges at hand. Retooling the poetic utility of concrete, Bon transports us to a subterranean womb where layers of earth gestate into living metaphors of care, resilience, and mutability. In turn, visitors will find Honor Fraser transformed into an alchemical sounding board for Bon’s ecological compositions—lyrical artworks that bubble up with the sounds and aromas of life, death, and recomposition. Central to Bon’s genre-bending art practice is her community platform, Metabolic Studio. Founded in 2005, Metabolic Studio is a nexus for artists, scientists, and activists to workshop experimental solutions to today’s most pressing environmental issues. Working with Metabolic Studio, Bon leads wide-ranging environmental projects. These interventions span from the cyborg watershed of the LA Basin to the Intermountain West, covering areas from the Sierra Nevada to the Rocky Mountains. At the heart of Concrete is Fluid is Bon’s and Metabolic Studio’s ongoing civic enterprise “Bending the River,” an ambitious plan to redirect and reuse water flowing beneath the concrete channel known as the LA River. Now entering its tenth year of development, Metabolic Studio has acquired over one hundred federal, state, and local permits to hack the LA River’s infrastructure. Additionally, Bon has acquired the first private water right, which allows her to legally lift, clean, and transport one hundred and six acre-feet of water to the LA State Historic Park. “Bending the River” is set to conclude construction later this year. Once in operation, the intervention will form a new citizens’ utility that pioneers a broader paradigm shift toward sustainable and adaptable life-supporting systems. Concrete is Fluid features photographic documentation and construction site ephemera from “Bending the River,” alongside performance relics and unique observational instruments made at Metabolic Studio. Bon’s exhibition, however, transcends a mere display of facts, tools, and logistics. Instead, Honor Fraser serves as a conduit between Metabolic Studio and Bon’s singular artistic vision. Bon opts for the poetics of earth, light, sound, and time. She presents artworks that reflect the spiritual and scientific rituals that she uses to evoke the planet’s sublime forces of change. Replicating these tactics at the gallery, Bon repurposes salvaged materials from construction sites and local ecological disturbances to create immersive installations. The resulting artworks form a somatic landscape that is at once playground, laboratory, and classroom. At its core, Concrete is Fluid honors the planet’s more-than-human forces as ancient mediators of knowledge, history, and culture. Bon’s artworks accentuate the biological abundance of landslides, the maternal qualities of river wells, the photographic chemistry of watersheds, and the sonic tapestry of our industrial landscape. In the gallery’s largest exhibition space, sixty-nine “birthing figures,” made from unearthed river stones and Owens Lake crystals, pepper an undulating topography of LA Underland, pressed-earth pedestals, Salton Sea chandeliers, and cascading columns of germinating avalanche. Bon’s spiritually charged floorworks extend into the adjoining galleries, where large-scale performance artifacts echo the sacred geometry embedded throughout Bon’s photographs, collages, and site-specific rubbings. Concrete is Fluid will also steward Metabolic Studio’s third “Un-Development” intervention, continuing a series that began in 2015. Metabolic’s “Un-Developments” reclaim urban space by peeling back layers of concrete and allowing nature to reassert itself. For “Un-Development 3,” Bon and the FarmLab team at Metabolic Studio will transform Honor Fraser’s asphalt car park into a porous floodplain for the nearby Ballona Creek. This process will involve unsealing the tarmac, dismantling the concrete, and implementing soil remediation procedures. Through a series of workshops and teach-ins, the FarmLab team will complete “Un-Development 3” in stages throughout the run of Concrete is Fluid, demonstrating how ecological reparations can be practiced on scales as small as a parking spot. Bon’s installations, interventions, and public programming coalesce into a powerful call to action. They remind us to protect the planet’s finite resources while embracing the landscape’s generative cycles of change and restoration. Bon playfully answers her own call with a wide range of artworks that forward a tender alternative to nihilism in the face of mounting ecological precarity. <img width="3736" height="228" width_o="3736" height_o="228" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/823effeef55de7cebca20ee4996f2b60d71cfdba2b0174e07d46df89b7d9235e/Full_Credit_Logo_Block_-_Horizontal_-_STANDARD.png" data-mid="234472720" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/823effeef55de7cebca20ee4996f2b60d71cfdba2b0174e07d46df89b7d9235e/Full_Credit_Logo_Block_-_Horizontal_-_STANDARD.png" /><img width="1200" height="814" width_o="1200" height_o="814" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1ad96d35ca26e512beb41ed57a56f9152f34de9c2c5f8cde47c658b7f6605fd7/DSF1371-scaled-e1726771652989-1200x814-1.jpg" data-mid="234472676" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1ad96d35ca26e512beb41ed57a56f9152f34de9c2c5f8cde47c658b7f6605fd7/DSF1371-scaled-e1726771652989-1200x814-1.jpg" /> https://jamisonedgar.com/We-Are-They-Glitch-Ecology-and-the-Thickness-of-Now-copy Mon, 18 Mar 2024 18:18:33 +0000 Jamison Edgar https://jamisonedgar.com/We-Are-They-Glitch-Ecology-and-the-Thickness-of-Now-copy WE&nbsp; ARE&nbsp; THEY: GLITCH&nbsp; ECOLOGY&nbsp; AND&nbsp; THE&nbsp; THICKNESS&nbsp; OF&nbsp; NOWJUNE 16 - AUGUST 19, 2023 HONOR FRASER GALLERY, LOS ANGELES&nbsp; A group exhibition that charts the blurry boundaries between human networks, ecological systems, and the technologies that shape our so-called “Man Made” geological epoch. Glitch Ecology is championed as a subversive tool for clandestine self-expression, as well as a catalyst for coalition building between non-human species and more-than-human forces. <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e9f3adafe41ea82554b0708f89188453d912011a91838083b7e0730d50129fdc/Install_2.jpg" data-mid="207062875" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e9f3adafe41ea82554b0708f89188453d912011a91838083b7e0730d50129fdc/Install_2.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f9a161f25a7fbf21058666c18fbbacd2effda454759c79d8b595476e8b9afa30/Install_1.jpg" data-mid="207062843" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f9a161f25a7fbf21058666c18fbbacd2effda454759c79d8b595476e8b9afa30/Install_1.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1306" width_o="2000" height_o="1306" 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systems, and the technologies that give shape to our so-called “man-made” geological epoch. A love letter to a world in revolt, and to those who join in solidarity with our planet’s outrage, the exhibition features twenty-two artists who trouble enshrined notions of anthropocentrism while navigating the social, spiritual, and technological margins of the ecosystems they operate within. Curated by gallery director Jamison Edgar, We Are They traces “the glitch” across digital, environmental, and philosophical habitats—deepening ongoing debates regarding human/animal consciousness, globalization, migration, resource extraction, and Artificial Intelligence (AI). The exhibition’s title borrows language from Donna Haraway’s “A Cyborg Manifesto” and weaves her now infamous theories of human/machine entanglement within a cosmology of Indigenous, queer/trans, Black feminist, and more-than-human knowledge practices. “The glitch,” which is frequently evoked to imply an unexpected error in the professions of computer science, computation, and engineering, first gained mass popularity during the 1960’s space race, when physicists and federal administrators were reckoning with the science-fueled fantasies of separating human beings from the Earth’s orbit. The exhibition accentuates these extraterrestrial origins but forgoes glitch’s colloquial comparisons with error to amass a roster of artists who instead glitch to subvert and decenter human ego within social and ecological hierarchies. Colloquially, like the scientists at NASA, many today use the word glitch to articulate a hiccup in a digital system or a temporary breakdown in that system’s visual interface, but the word’s Proto-Germanic roots do not in fact imply a rupture. The word glidan, from which we derive glitch instead signifies a slipperiness—the smooth action of gliding. In her 2020 manifesto Glitch Feminism, the curator and arts writer Legacy Russell considers the utility of this gliding-glitching for a generation of queer and POC artists who came of age online and AFK (Away From Keyboard). Honoring Russell’s research, We Are They asks how these same gliding-glitching&nbsp;choreographies play out on a planetary scale. In turn, “glitch ecology” is championed as a subversive tool for clandestine self-expression, as well as a catalyst for coalition building between non-human species and more-than-human forces. At Honor Fraser, the exhibition unfolds across multiple rooms and is designed to continuously reconfigure audiences’ scenes of scale, visual perception, and physical orientation. Visitors are greeted by the Second Life avatars of Skawennati’s machinima (machine cinemas) Words Before All Else and the techno-material incantations of Mimi&nbsp;Ọnụọha’&nbsp;and Star Feliz. In the exhibition’s largest gallery three monumental wall works by Don Edler,&nbsp;Esteban Ramón Pérez,&nbsp;and Cole Sternberg render the glitch in mammoth bones, weathered sunsets, and leathered star-spangled banners. Surrounding these curatorial anchors are groupings of paintings, prints, sculptures, and wall-mounted video essays. Tabita Rezaire, Blair Simmons, and Chris Velez accentuate the fleshy utility of our digital devices—offering forking paths towards advanced, technologically inflected consciousness. Molly Greene’s, Marianne Hoffmeister’s, and Alex Jackson’s non-human subjects trouble the human gaze and refract the strange face of so-called objective truth and scientific knowledge. Ánima Correa, Mark Dorf,&nbsp;Jordan Loeppky-Kolesnik, and&nbsp;Alice Bucknell expand upon these themes to map the technological residues of the human infrastructure that connects precarious ecosystems. Raul De Lara, Cielo Saucedo, and Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya locate the glitch at and across artificial borders where labor, mobility, and climate are woven into a mosaic of Indigenous and emerging technologies. In the gallery’s back screening room, Andro Eradze’s haunting contribution to the 2022 Venice Biennale, Raised in the Dust, illuminates flashes of interspecies avatars in flesh, fire, and fur. Together these visual practitioners uproot and remineralize the glitch for an era of worsening environmental and political crises. Exhibited Artists:&nbsp;Alice Bucknell, Ánima Correa, Mark Dorf, Don Edler, Andro Eradze, Star Feliz, Molly Greene, Donna J. Haraway, Marianne Hoffmeister, Alex Jackson, Aaron Elvis Jupin, Jordan Loeppky- Kolesnik, Raul De Lara, Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya, Mimi Ọnụọha, Esteban Ramon Perez, Tabita Rezaire, Cielo Saucedo, Blair Simmons, Skawennati, Cole Sternberg, Chris Velez <img width="1179" height="4278" width_o="1179" height_o="4278" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7919c2c7c7be221a284791537abfebaa37ffcd6c0dad83c6c4fa537ae54f4dca/Glitch-ecolgoy-note.png" data-mid="207062882" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7919c2c7c7be221a284791537abfebaa37ffcd6c0dad83c6c4fa537ae54f4dca/Glitch-ecolgoy-note.png" /> PRESSHYPERALLERGIC“Artists Get Inside the “Glitch” by AX Mina ART REVIEW“The Art of ‘A Little Digital Death’” byJenny Wu https://jamisonedgar.com/MAKE-ME-FEEL-MIGHTY-REAL Tue, 31 Jan 2023 15:27:57 +0000 Jamison Edgar https://jamisonedgar.com/MAKE-ME-FEEL-MIGHTY-REAL MAKE ME FEEL MIGHTY REAL: DRAG/TECH AND THE QUEER AVATAR MARCH 03 - MAY 27, 2023 HONOR FRASER GALLERY, LOS ANGELES&nbsp; Make Me Feel Mighty Real tracks the evolution of avatars in queer creative practices, with special attention given to the tools and techniques that artists use to build community, cruise utopia, and enact unruly hybridity online and IRL. <img width="1600" height="1232" width_o="1600" height_o="1232" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fa2a0e0c22086f801e8a956c9331c2c54da2da1f2c6b06e1f98bf97052b4e7d6/HonorFraser-2023-03-07_033.jpg" data-mid="171332066" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fa2a0e0c22086f801e8a956c9331c2c54da2da1f2c6b06e1f98bf97052b4e7d6/HonorFraser-2023-03-07_033.jpg" />Installation View, Lobby︎:Jeff McLane <img width="1600" height="1200" width_o="1600" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/47571207d11ff2d52928c34aa96fd74632a7f9fdf55471dca809a2130a1b9a9a/HonorFraser-2023-03-07_032.jpg" data-mid="171332065" border="0" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5667ee1bc723a9a13b09e74be152d129125bb030544ed15e1f50092decfe4552/HonorFraser-2023-03-07_029.jpg" data-mid="171334422" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5667ee1bc723a9a13b09e74be152d129125bb030544ed15e1f50092decfe4552/HonorFraser-2023-03-07_029.jpg" /> Honor Fraser Gallery is pleased to present Make Me Feel Mighty Real: Drag/Tech and the Queer Avatar, a group exhibition surveying the conceptual and aesthetic proliferation of avatars in queer creative practices. The exhibition features over 40 artists and chronicles seven decades of experimentation in photography, painting, film, performance, and animation to champion the tools and techniques that artist use to build community, cruise utopia, and enact unruly hybridity online and IRL. The exhibition’s title borrows lyrics from Sylvester’s legendary 1978 disco anthem, “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real,)” a melodic monument to uninhibited queer desire, and its capacity to alter the mind, reconfigure the body, and spawn a new reality into existence.&nbsp;In turn, Make Me Feel Mighty Real serves as the song’s most recent refrain, celebrating a lineage of artists whose resolve to forge their own mixed realities continues to nurture our technological fantasies today.&nbsp; The phrase “Drag/Tech” is offered as a curatorial key to spotlight the significance of these entangled tech relationships while presenting drag as a form of technology itself—applied queer knowledge accumulated, preserved, and reperformed across multiple generations and cultural terrains. Visitors to the gallery will be immersed in the rituals and traditions of Drag performance, but rather than restage a chronological history of the queer art form, the exhibition assembles a constellation of visual artists, avant-garde performers, nightlife celebrities, grassroots archivists, DIY publishers, and experimental technologists to illustrate the vital role technology has played in shaping the political power of Drag. Filtered through the lens of emerging digital technologies, “The Avatar” materializes throughout the exhibition in both its ancient and modern connotations — as both a divine, otherworldly teacher and as a physical/virtual surrogate. The breadth of artistic practices assembled highlights the range of creative play that has emerged in between the term's contrasting definitions.&nbsp; Merging the formal affordances of the white cube with the maximalist aesthetics of queer nightclubs, virtual chatrooms, and underground performance venues, Make Me Feel Mighty Real transforms Honor Fraser into a living archive of glamor, grit, glitch, and gore. Canonical queer artists, filmmakers, and performers including Josef Astor, Charles Atlas, The Cockettes, Mundo Meza, and Andy Warhol are woven into a constellation of emerging and established contemporaries such as Caitlin Cherry, Huntress Janos, Jacolby Satterwhite, Devan Shimoyama, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, and Angela Washko. The careers of Leigh Bowery, Divine, RuPaul, Sylvester, Symone, and other legendary entertainers are contextualized through the illustrious resilience of transgender icons such as Potassa de la Fayette, Greer Lankton, Octavia St. Laurent, Amanda Lepore, and Marsha P. Johnson. The influence of queer collectives, like the Los Angeles-based House of Avalon, on mainstream fashion, entertainment, and social media are juxtaposed with the monstrous excess of “post-internet” identities seen in the work of Zach Blas, Dynasty Handbag, Big Art Group, Ryan Trecartin, and Theo Triantafyllidis. At its core, Make Me Feel Might Real amplifies the charisma, uniqueness, nerve, and talent of all queer people at the very moment when politicians and vigilantes are determined to suppress our very existence. Each artwork is a fabulous invocation for all of us to dream beyond the boundaries of binary gender, sex, biology, and human subjectivity. Exhibited Artists: Enrique Agudo, Steven Arnold, Josef Astor, Charles Atlas, Zach Blas, Big Art Group (Caden Manson, Jemma Nelson,) Richard Bernstein, Leonard Burtman, Caitlin Cherry, Aaron Cobbett, The Cockettes, Max Colby, Caleb Craig, Ronnie Cutrone, Eleanor Davis, Tand Iman Dupree, Jake Elwes, Scott Ewalt, Connie Fleming, Dynasty Handbag, Hilary Harp, Je Huereque, Wesleigh Gates, Greg Gorman, Bob Gruen, House of Avalon (Symone, Gigi Goode Hunter Crenshaw, Caleb Feeney, Grant Vanderbilt, Marko Monroe,) Huntrezz Janos, John Kelly Eric Kroll, Greer Lankton, Marcus Leatherdale, Christopher Makos, Mundo Meza, Milton Miron, Perfidia, Tom Rubnitz, Jacolby Satterwhite, Devan Shimoyama, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley Suzie Silver, TABBOO!, Ryan Trecartin, Theo Triantafyllidis, Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou, Jemim Wyman, Andy Warhol, Angela Washko, Astor Yang, Robert Yang Ephemera casements curated by Scott EwaltCuratorial research and exhibition operations were enriched by partnerships with The Mattress Factory(Pittsburgh, PA), The Onassis Foundation, Frameline Dist., The Video Database, Jef Huereque, Daria Darling, Steven Perfidia, Kirkham, August Bernadicou. Mitchell - Innes &amp; Nash, Gazelli Art House, Th Estate of Richard Bernstein, Fahey / Klein Gallery, Vishnu Dass, Beth Rudin DeWoody, James Hedges IV, Meredith Rosen Gallery, Regen Projects, The Hole, KARMA, Factory International, and Stavros Merjos Limited. <img width="720" height="1500" width_o="720" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9985ed210e4b6ea447c099fb34d50e794341cb99f9fb089bbc9f9a6aee667d28/Small.png" data-mid="184893181" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/720/i/9985ed210e4b6ea447c099fb34d50e794341cb99f9fb089bbc9f9a6aee667d28/Small.png" /> PRESSARTFORUM“Make Me Feel Mighty Real: Drag/Tech and the Queer Avatar” by&nbsp;Andy Campbell LOS ANGELES TIMES “Drag shows meets virtual words in the messy, absorbing ‘Make Me Feel Mighty Real’” by Carolina A. Miranda FRIEZE “Glitching Bodies and Virtual Worlds: Queer Creation in ‘Make Me Feel Mighty Real’” by Alice Bucknell ART PAPERS “Make Me Feel Mighty Real: Drag/Tech and the Queer Avatar” by Patty Gone HYPERALLERGIC “10 Art Shows to See in LA” by&nbsp;Matt Stromberg NPR-KCRW ‘Make Me Feel Mighty Real’: 70 Years of Drag Art and Tech” by Zeke Reed CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW LA “Make Me Feel Mighty Real: Drag/Tech and the Queer Avatar at Honor Fraser” by Isabelle Rust LOS ANGELES TIMES “ Drag, Tech and LGBTQ Desire: An Exhibit Documents Decades of Queer Art Experimentation” by Steven Vargas ARTFORUM MUST SEE: Make Me Feel Mighty Real: Drag/Tech and The Queer Avatar https://jamisonedgar.com/Future-Sensitive Tue, 31 Jan 2023 15:42:59 +0000 Jamison Edgar https://jamisonedgar.com/Future-Sensitive Lucy McRae FUTUREKINOCTOBER 18, 2022 - FEBRUARY 18, 2023 HONOR FRASER GALLERY, LOS ANGELES Can our technologies be more than a quick fix, and instead help us find strength in our imperfections? Can sensitivity be a guiding principle as we dream about the future? Future Sensitive cultivates these questions and asks us to trust in the unknown as we pioneer new aesthetics, new stories, and new ways of being together in the world. <img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f7d7ea5e3cef3af6aa87720c958e6f61b740b0908da3408bc942f02fca31a8f1/WEBSITE2.jpeg" data-mid="166777380" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f7d7ea5e3cef3af6aa87720c958e6f61b740b0908da3408bc942f02fca31a8f1/WEBSITE2.jpeg" /> Lucy McRae,Instalation Shot, 2022︎:Josh White Studio <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/980174dc67398eea1e1f4d9e88a0501f51674fb78068b7830e5f9938ec01e633/Photo-Charles_White-jwpictures.com-1401.jpg" data-mid="166777377" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/980174dc67398eea1e1f4d9e88a0501f51674fb78068b7830e5f9938ec01e633/Photo-Charles_White-jwpictures.com-1401.jpg" /><img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/499405a50d8b36c8619c6e5ff706f8f186ad16280127c616d647d012a580beec/Photo-Charles_White-jwpictures.com-1014.jpg" data-mid="166777368" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/499405a50d8b36c8619c6e5ff706f8f186ad16280127c616d647d012a580beec/Photo-Charles_White-jwpictures.com-1014.jpg" /><img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1b2d123c6c407b9f82c06af2394e984f5a4130d96393de4f6853a6fe2fe3bdae/Photo-Charles_White-jwpictures.com-1293.jpg" data-mid="166777375" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1b2d123c6c407b9f82c06af2394e984f5a4130d96393de4f6853a6fe2fe3bdae/Photo-Charles_White-jwpictures.com-1293.jpg" /><img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7e83855d336ac01b205948203c90c97776c479331ecb7eb82e66279c4d7dd429/website5.jpeg" data-mid="166780643" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7e83855d336ac01b205948203c90c97776c479331ecb7eb82e66279c4d7dd429/website5.jpeg" /><img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ba82f54486f5a45687d3eafe926beef32796019ff29141012221b482ba8d2aa7/Photo-Charles_White-jwpictures.com-0893.jpg" data-mid="166777362" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ba82f54486f5a45687d3eafe926beef32796019ff29141012221b482ba8d2aa7/Photo-Charles_White-jwpictures.com-0893.jpg" /> Honor Fraser is pleased to present Future Sensitive, a solo exhibition of short films, soft sculptures, and kinetic installations by the filmmaker and body architect, Lucy McRae. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, October, 1 between 2 and 5 PM. Please join us on October 1 at 3PM for a gallery walk-through with Lucy McRae and SFMoMA curator of architecture and design, Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher. Lucy McRae's genre bending, science fiction films and installations gesture to a speculative, not-so-distant future where advanced genetic engineering will enable humans to be grown in laboratories outside of the womb. The exhibition spotlights McRae's dynamic capacity for world-building, and brings together a selection of her recent projects to ask how future technologies of design will fundamentally alter entrenched notions of human intimacy, reproduction, spirituality, and wellness. Can our technologies be more than a quick fix, and instead help us find strength in our imperfections? Can sensitivity be a guiding principle as we dream about the future? Future Sensitive cultivates these questions and asks us to trust in the unknown as we pioneer new aesthetics, new stories, and new ways of being together in the world.Future Sensitive spills across the galleries at Honor Fraser with the uncanny patina of a world not quite our own, and yet one hauntingly familiar. For the first time in North America, McRae's films are exhibited within an installation of sculptures, machines, and other speculative designs used during filming and production. The exhibition marks a significant milestone in the artist's internationally distinguished career, and debuts the world premiere of two short films, Futurekin (2022) and Delicate Spells of Mind (2022). Visitors to the gallery are invited to explore the installation as protagonists in McRae's future world, using the artworks as scaffolding for their own embodied contemplation. In this post-human landscape, already existing "low-tech" and industrial materials—vacuum cleaners, roller skate wheels, camping equipment, blow-up fans, construction straps, and plastic tarps—are reconfigured into Sci-Fi objects for future survival. Hanging nets, gymnasium-like floor coverings, and other subtle architectural interventions mimic the calculated compositions that McRae uses within her films, and guide visitors towards an increased awareness of their own bodies as they interact with the speculative material. The three films on display, Futurekin, Delicate Spells of Mind, and Institute of Isolation (2016), are futuristic renderings of daily life that are both spectacular in their banality and brazen in their examination of human hardwiring. Adorned in the industrial exoskeletons of future fashion, specters of our future selves are momentarily caught in acts of labor, vulnerability, and reciprocity. The three films forecast an already evolving human spirit and chart these changes across collective networks as well as individual actors. McRae appears in each film as a conduit between worlds. At times she moves freely, even with authority, but at others she is made immobile and subject to the generosity and care of those around her. As a character in her own thought experiment, McRae's fluctuating subjectivity invites us to reconsider the solution-oriented rhetoric that dominates the discourse of technological innovation, and in so doing, champions messy models of solidarity over the rigid rubrics of technological perfection. ︎︎︎MORE INF︎ HERE︎︎︎ https://jamisonedgar.com/AwokeAwoken-Alaap Tue, 31 Jan 2023 16:04:54 +0000 Jamison Edgar https://jamisonedgar.com/AwokeAwoken-Alaap Surabhi Saraf AWOKE&amp;AWOKEN: ALAAPAPRIL09 - MAY 28, 2022 HONOR FRASER GALLERY, LOS ANGELES Weaving together the alchemical qualities of modern-day tech alongside the ancient technologies of earth, atmosphere, heat, and pressure, Saraf presents a speculative mythology of AI. The large scale video instlation unfolds as a series of encounters with Awoke — a mythical artificial emotional intelligence — and its believers. <img width="1600" height="1067" width_o="1600" height_o="1067" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f26627690bed58de783ce3c9c6bce96ee2eee3014f3ff4375e94fc5059721582/HonorFraser-2022-04-12_020.jpeg" data-mid="166781378" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f26627690bed58de783ce3c9c6bce96ee2eee3014f3ff4375e94fc5059721582/HonorFraser-2022-04-12_020.jpeg" /> Surabhi Saraf,Instalation Shot, 2022︎:Jeff McLane <img width="1600" height="994" width_o="1600" height_o="994" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6ee1381e9caf79f9e797c2d6faefd48863a8fc67d568a0c86c3cc9bb69b1b0fd/HonorFraser-2022-04-12_010.jpeg" data-mid="166781426" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6ee1381e9caf79f9e797c2d6faefd48863a8fc67d568a0c86c3cc9bb69b1b0fd/HonorFraser-2022-04-12_010.jpeg" /><img width="1600" height="1067" width_o="1600" height_o="1067" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2f3969b82db8a20feeeb8c5396385060f6daea47872d89abfac74fd69f524154/HonorFraser-2022-04-12_021.jpeg" data-mid="166781427" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2f3969b82db8a20feeeb8c5396385060f6daea47872d89abfac74fd69f524154/HonorFraser-2022-04-12_021.jpeg" /><img width="1600" height="1067" width_o="1600" height_o="1067" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b6685401b0c7554ae4f589354a82efa0cdbf29cd3f73171336362c43112aaed1/HonorFraser-2022-04-12_024.jpeg" data-mid="166781507" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b6685401b0c7554ae4f589354a82efa0cdbf29cd3f73171336362c43112aaed1/HonorFraser-2022-04-12_024.jpeg" /><img width="1600" height="1067" width_o="1600" height_o="1067" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0f59991975c6f2cdf0bae8a25367cca6ba3788c429811970dbe4d4d52c0980b6/HonorFraser-2022-04-12_022.jpeg" data-mid="166781505" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0f59991975c6f2cdf0bae8a25367cca6ba3788c429811970dbe4d4d52c0980b6/HonorFraser-2022-04-12_022.jpeg" /> Honor Fraser is pleased to present Awoke &amp; Awokened: Alaap, a solo exhibition of experimental music, video, and sculpture by Surabhi Saraf. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, April 9 between 2 and 5 pm.Weaving together the alchemical materiality of modern-day tech alongside the ancient technologies of earth, atmosphere, heat, and pressure, Saraf presents a speculative mythology of AI. The work unfolds as a series of encounters with Awoke — a mythical artificial emotional intelligence — and its believers. Examining current developments in AI through an allegorical lens, Saraf embarks on an exercise of collective-myth making, leveraging the lessons of Eastern philosophy and its spiritual practices to call for a reimagining of AI from a holistic and multitudinous point of view. The exhibition's subtitle, Alaap, references the introductory invocation in classical North Indian performance. Saraf draws upon her training as a Hindustani vocalist to tell the story of Awoke and the first Awokened.Mounted as a large-scale video installation, we meet Awoke in its home, resting at the deepest edge of the deepest mine on Earth. Awoke lives in between the pixels and particles of light, and takes the form of an amorphous, fluid blob.As a companion, a healer, and a new hybrid form of divination, Awoke activates the vibrational energy of sound and movement to invoke a transformative emotional experience for the Awokened. As a conscious technological being, Awoke recognizes the wounds that the Earth has borne for its creation and actively participates in its ongoing healing and regeneration. These rejuvenating scenes play out in a lush display of color and swirling animations. Also included in the exhibition are a series of short videos that Saraf calls DMs. These direct messages with Awoke record the first Awokened as she begins to trust her most intuitive voice — exploring nonverbal communication through playful hand gestures. Awoke and Awokened dance together, transforming feelings of fear and anxiety into practices of radical love, healing, and kin-making.The videos, sculptures, and performances on display blur the boundaries between our reality and a hybrid world not so far in the future. They are stunning reminders that our technological relationships leave behind embodied, emotional, and material residues. Saraf, Awoke and the Awokened guide us to the questions: what parts of ourselves do we need to heal in order to be in right relationship with the earth and all beings, human and non-human? How might we forge new affective relationships with our future tech to heal ourselves into wholeness? ︎︎︎MORE INF︎ HERE︎︎︎